Thanks! It's so appealing, isn't it? I wanted to buy them all so I could line them up on my kitchen sill. :) I don't even know what they are. Liquor I think. Maybe I'll just get pretty bottles and fill them with colored water!

If I'd lived another life, I'd have been a world traveler, photographing the great and gorgeous places of the world. Instead, I am happily married and raising three kids in the suburbs, surrounded by concrete, strip malls, and traffic lights. There are more McDonalds than mountains, more cars than city skylines, more dirty dishes and laundry piles than sunsets and palm trees.

But I am determined to find the beautiful things around me, right where I live, even if I have to use a macro lens to find it.

About Me

Writer, photographer, mother of three. My debut novel, Some Kind of Normal (NorLights Press) landed on bookshelves late 2009. My shorter writing has appeared in The Potomac Review, The Fiction Writers Review, PANK, The Buffalo Almanac, and Campus Life. I earned my MFA in fiction from Pacific University in 2013 and my short story, Counting by Threes, has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.